07 - Hands Held High
[00:22.64] Turn my mic up louder, I got to say something
[00:25.38] Lightweights steppin' aside when we come in
[00:27.64] Feel it in your chest, the syllables get pumping
[00:29.88] People on the street then panic and start running
[00:32.39] Words on loose leaf sheet, complete coming
[00:34.63] I jump in my mind, I summon the rhyme I'm dumping
[00:36.89] Healing the blind, I promise to let the sun in
[00:39.13] Sick of the dark ways we march to the drumming
[00:41.39] Jump when they tell us that they wanna see jumping
[00:43.88] Fuck that, I wanna see some fists pumping
[00:46.15] Risk something, take back what's yours
[00:48.14] Say something that you know they might attack you for
[00:50.38] 'Cause I'm sick of being treated like I had before
[00:52.89] Like it's stupid standing for what I'm standing for
[00:55.14] Like this war's really just a different brand of war
[00:57.39] Like it doesn't cater to rich and abandon poor
[00:59.64] Like they understand you, in the back of their jet
[01:01.89] When you can't put gas in your tank
[01:03.63] These fuckers are laughing their way to the bank, and cashing their check
[01:06.64] Asking you to have compassion and have some respect
[01:08.89] For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
[01:11.14] Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
[01:13.51] And the rest of the world watching at the end of the day
[01:15.75] In the living room, laughing like, "What did he say?"
[01:18.00] Amen
[01:21.75] Amen
[01:26.25] Amen
[01:31.00] Amen
[01:35.50] Amen
[01:41.25] In my living room watching it, but I am not laughing
[01:43.74] 'Cause when it gets tense, I know what might happen
[01:46.01] The war is cold, the bold men take action
[01:48.25] Have to react to get blown into fractions
[01:50.75] Ten years old, there's something to see
[01:52.75] Another kid my age drugged under a Jeep
[01:55.00] Taken and bound and found later under a tree
[01:57.25] I wonder if he had thought 'the next one could be me'
[01:59.50] Do you see the soldiers that are out today?
[02:02.01] They brush the dust from bulletproof vests away
[02:04.25] It's ironic, at times like this you'd pray
[02:06.25] But a bomb blew the mosque up yesterday
[02:09.00] There's bombs on the buses, bikes, roads
[02:11.25] Inside your market, your shops, and your clothes
[02:13.75] My dad, he's got a lot of fear, I know
[02:15.61] But enough pride inside not to let that show
[02:18.11] My brother had a book he would hold with pride
[02:20.47] A little red cover with a broken spine on the back
[02:22.73] He hand-wrote a quote inside
[02:25.00] "When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die"
[02:27.23] Meanwhile, the leader just talks away
[02:29.47] Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay
[02:31.97] The rest of the world watching at the end of the day
[02:34.23] Both scared and angry, like "What did he say?"
[02:36.97] Amen
[02:40.21] Amen
[02:44.97] Amen
[02:49.47] Amen
[02:53.97] Amen
[02:54.73] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[02:59.22] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:03.98] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:08.25] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:12.97] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:17.73] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:22.22] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:26.97] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:31.48] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:36.22] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
[03:40.74] With hands held high into a sky so blue
[03:45.24] As the ocean opens up to swallow you
